BUREAU OF JUSTICE ASSISTANCE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bureau of Justice Assistance mean? 

• BUREAU OF JUSTICE ASSISTANCE (noun)
  The noun BUREAU OF JUSTICE ASSISTANCE has 1 sense:

1. the bureau in the Department of Justice that assists local criminal justice systems to reduce or prevent crime and violence and drug abuse

  Familiarity information: BUREAU OF JUSTICE ASSISTANCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUREAU OF JUSTICE ASSISTANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The bureau in the Department of Justice that assists local criminal justice systems to reduce or prevent crime and violence and drug abuse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

BJA; Bureau of Justice Assistance

Hypernyms ("Bureau of Justice Assistance" is a kind of...):

agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Holonyms ("Bureau of Justice Assistance" is a part of...):

Department of Justice; DoJ; Justice; Justice Department (the United States federal department responsible for enforcing federal laws (including the enforcement of all civil rights legislation); created in 1870)